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Hope is the quiet force that keeps us moving forward, even when the path ahead feels uncertain. It shows up in small moments of courage, resilience, and belief that tomorrow can be better than today. The quotes that follow reflect the many ways hope lifts, steadies, and reminds us why we keep going.   ◀ Back
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Everything will eventually get better,
But first, it will get worse.
- Ritu Negi
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Topic: Hope
Come with us, we'll take you across the bridge...
- E. K. Mosley
The Last Stardog
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Topic: Hope
I look at the bright light of the day outside my window hoping to feel a ray of hope in my life. But unfortunately, I no longer understand what it looks like. Perhaps in the darkness of the casket, I will find the hope to live a peaceful and loving life again. Perhaps I will even find you there with your open arms with a bottle of wine and we would discuss which photographs we would keep for our master bedroom and which ones we would bury like the way we buried our love once. Perhaps.
- Shubham Singhania
Dark little corners
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Topic: Hope
What Hope Means (The Sonnet)

What do you think hope means,
To sit and do nothing!
Such is no hope but cowardice,
Real hope gets you walking.

Hope means to take charge,
Hope means unsubmission.
Hope means to not lose sight,
Hope means to cause illumination.

Life is what happens to the human,
Human is what happens to life.
Nature is what happens to the animal,
Human is the animal rising civilized.

I repeat, hope is no excuse for inaction.
Real hope brings emancipation from submission.
- Abhijit Naskar
Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
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Topic: Hope
Sunsets are proof that no matter what, every day can end beautifully.
- Emma Lucy
Live, Ranch, Love
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Topic: Hope
Hope is the light you hold fast to when passing through darkness. With it, you will surely find your way. With it, you will surely find what you’re searching for.
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Hope, Motivational
Whatever gives you hope has given you one of the greatest gifts ever.
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Topic: Hope
The Musket's Progeny by Stewart Stafford

The musket's progeny, gunpowder's rise,
Heirloom ingot cast in festering dirt,
No scaldy-faced defecator's lies,
Can tarnish gold's immutable worth.

Besmirched, perpetual gleam to my eyes,
Ne'er base, but plundered from thy berth,
Another's private treasure, I cannot despise,
Until thy loan fadeth i' th' afterbirth.

With cloistered secrets to impart,
Our correspondence doth expand,
Let it encompass thy tiny heart,
For when it groweth to understand.

When from distant quays, emotion sails,
My words guide thee in storms and gales.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.
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Topic: Hope
For every storm, a rainbow will follow.
- Laura Ellen Anderson
Rainbow Grey
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Topic: Hope
THRICE bless'd are they, who feel their loneliness;
To whom nor voice of friends nor pleasant scene
Brings aught on which the sadden'd heart can
lean;
Yea, the rich earth, garb'd in her daintiest dress
Of light and joy, doth but the more oppress,
Claiming responsive smiles and rapture high;
Till, sick at heart, beyond the veil they fly,
Seeking His Presence, who alone can bless.
Such, in strange days, the weapons of Heaven's
grace;
When, passing o'er the high-born Hebrew line,
He moulds the vessel of His vast design;
Fatherless, homeless, reft of age and place,
Sever'd from earth, and careless of its wreck,
Born through long woe His rare Melchizedek.
- John Henry Newman
Verses on Various Occasions
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Topic: Hope
Over the years, she had time and time again thought that love had a peak and a plateau, but she found that each time she only fell deeper and further in love with her husband. Measurements stopped, time slowed, but the soft fluttering of her heart whenever she thought of him never ceased.
- J. Lam
Snow at Heaven's Edge: A Tale from the Carefree Swordsman Saga
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Topic: Hope
Hope is a terribly dangerous thing, for what if that which we so passionately hope for never comes to pass? What if the healing never comes, the relationship is never restored, the dream can’t be revived, and the horror of the inevitable remains horribly inevitable? These things I pondered. And yet, standing in a forest forced silent by the bitter hand of winter I was reminded that spring is never deterred despite how bitter winter’s hand might be. For it is not the ‘hope’ of spring. Rather it is the ‘fact’ of spring. And therefore we must remember that hope is fact despite how bitter the hand of life.
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...y aún el antiutopista cree que es bueno luchar, por más que no haya victorias definitivas.
- Luis Gregorich
Literatura y homosexualidad
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Topic: Hope
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
- C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves
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Topic: Hope
I wanna be myself (I don’t care)
Yeah, I gotta be myself (Just don’t care)
And now that your weight’s come off my shoulders
I realize that I can fly
I needed to find me (Now I know)
The key was inside of me all along
I’m listening to my heart, let it guide me
I feel the light, I feel the light
- Stray Kids
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Topic: Hope
My love for him is what kept me alive. It's the type of love that gave me hope.
- Carmen Rosales
He Loves Me Not
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Topic: Hope
Let our love be a radiant sun,
casting warmth on all it touches..
Offer compassion like a sheltering canopy,
understand like a soothing balm,
be kind like a gentle breeze
that carries hope.
For we never know who might be weathering a silent storm.
- Monika Ajay Kaul
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Hope
Keep yourself open to unexpected blessings, dear.
- Sarah McCoy
Marilla of Green Gables: A Novel
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Topic: Hope
They'll come around. You watch what happens the next time someone co-opt that symbol. People know now, it stands for courage. It stands for Hope. It stands for Superman. and the whole world will remember that.
- Mark Waid
Superman: Birthright
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Topic: Hope, Motivational
Life is a mountain, and dreams come true for those who climb it; it's hard, and sometimes you want to turn around because it gets too much, and sometimes you look up at what you have to climb and realise you're not even halfway, but if you keep looking at how much there is to go instead of looking at where you put your feet, you'll never reach the summit. You have to want it, and you have to focus on the now, otherwise you'll live for the future instead of the present, and by then you're not even living.
- Naomi Speakman
Until Now
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Topic: Hope, Success
Impostor Times by Stewart Stafford

When dark forces mask your eyes
Happiness, a distant beacon dream
Hope approaches your warming fire
Enjoy a toast, before flavours teem

Each pillar of truth, now a traitor to you
Motherland cut in mercenary march
Bonfires of blood in purification rage
Cuckoos in the nest, gloat in the larch

Rebel droplets, merge into roaring flood
Abort the tyrant's myriad bastard heirs
Expel the puppets to the unyielding sea
Birthplace restored as the patriot dares

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.
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Topic: Hope, Motivational
Do not be deceived by them. They will tell you that they are good and that they wish you well. They will promise you many things that you know are impossible. Slowly, as you listen to them, you will hope for what cannot be. The Evil One will tell you that you must be something which you cannot be and ridicule you when you fail to become what you cannot become. That is why they are evil.
- Jamake Highwater
Anpao: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – A Timeless Native American Legend About Proving Worthiness for Children
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Topic: Hope
How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die
- Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth
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Topic: Death, Hope
Love is my inner strength and my power.
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Education, Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
Everything will eventually get better,
But first, it will get worse.
- Ritu Negi
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Come with us, we'll take you across the bridge...
- E. K. Mosley
The Last Stardog
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▼
Topic: Hope
I look at the bright light of the day outside my window hoping to feel a ray of hope in my life. But unfortunately, I no longer understand what it looks like. Perhaps in the darkness of the casket, I will find the hope to live a peaceful and loving life again. Perhaps I will even find you there with your open arms with a bottle of wine and we would discuss which photographs we would keep for our master bedroom and which ones we would bury like the way we buried our love once. Perhaps.
- Shubham Singhania
Dark little corners
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
What Hope Means (The Sonnet)

What do you think hope means,
To sit and do nothing!
Such is no hope but cowardice,
Real hope gets you walking.

Hope means to take charge,
Hope means unsubmission.
Hope means to not lose sight,
Hope means to cause illumination.

Life is what happens to the human,
Human is what happens to life.
Nature is what happens to the animal,
Human is the animal rising civilized.

I repeat, hope is no excuse for inaction.
Real hope brings emancipation from submission.
- Abhijit Naskar
Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Hope
Sunsets are proof that no matter what, every day can end beautifully.
- Emma Lucy
Live, Ranch, Love
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is the light you hold fast to when passing through darkness. With it, you will surely find your way. With it, you will surely find what you’re searching for.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope, Motivational
Whatever gives you hope has given you one of the greatest gifts ever.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
The Musket's Progeny by Stewart Stafford

The musket's progeny, gunpowder's rise,
Heirloom ingot cast in festering dirt,
No scaldy-faced defecator's lies,
Can tarnish gold's immutable worth.

Besmirched, perpetual gleam to my eyes,
Ne'er base, but plundered from thy berth,
Another's private treasure, I cannot despise,
Until thy loan fadeth i' th' afterbirth.

With cloistered secrets to impart,
Our correspondence doth expand,
Let it encompass thy tiny heart,
For when it groweth to understand.

When from distant quays, emotion sails,
My words guide thee in storms and gales.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
For every storm, a rainbow will follow.
- Laura Ellen Anderson
Rainbow Grey
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
THRICE bless'd are they, who feel their loneliness;
To whom nor voice of friends nor pleasant scene
Brings aught on which the sadden'd heart can
lean;
Yea, the rich earth, garb'd in her daintiest dress
Of light and joy, doth but the more oppress,
Claiming responsive smiles and rapture high;
Till, sick at heart, beyond the veil they fly,
Seeking His Presence, who alone can bless.
Such, in strange days, the weapons of Heaven's
grace;
When, passing o'er the high-born Hebrew line,
He moulds the vessel of His vast design;
Fatherless, homeless, reft of age and place,
Sever'd from earth, and careless of its wreck,
Born through long woe His rare Melchizedek.
- John Henry Newman
Verses on Various Occasions
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▼
Topic: Hope
Over the years, she had time and time again thought that love had a peak and a plateau, but she found that each time she only fell deeper and further in love with her husband. Measurements stopped, time slowed, but the soft fluttering of her heart whenever she thought of him never ceased.
- J. Lam
Snow at Heaven's Edge: A Tale from the Carefree Swordsman Saga
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is a terribly dangerous thing, for what if that which we so passionately hope for never comes to pass? What if the healing never comes, the relationship is never restored, the dream can’t be revived, and the horror of the inevitable remains horribly inevitable? These things I pondered. And yet, standing in a forest forced silent by the bitter hand of winter I was reminded that spring is never deterred despite how bitter winter’s hand might be. For it is not the ‘hope’ of spring. Rather it is the ‘fact’ of spring. And therefore we must remember that hope is fact despite how bitter the hand of life.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
...y aún el antiutopista cree que es bueno luchar, por más que no haya victorias definitivas.
- Luis Gregorich
Literatura y homosexualidad
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
- C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
I wanna be myself (I don’t care)
Yeah, I gotta be myself (Just don’t care)
And now that your weight’s come off my shoulders
I realize that I can fly
I needed to find me (Now I know)
The key was inside of me all along
I’m listening to my heart, let it guide me
I feel the light, I feel the light
- Stray Kids
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
My love for him is what kept me alive. It's the type of love that gave me hope.
- Carmen Rosales
He Loves Me Not
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Let our love be a radiant sun,
casting warmth on all it touches..
Offer compassion like a sheltering canopy,
understand like a soothing balm,
be kind like a gentle breeze
that carries hope.
For we never know who might be weathering a silent storm.
- Monika Ajay Kaul
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Keep yourself open to unexpected blessings, dear.
- Sarah McCoy
Marilla of Green Gables: A Novel
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
They'll come around. You watch what happens the next time someone co-opt that symbol. People know now, it stands for courage. It stands for Hope. It stands for Superman. and the whole world will remember that.
- Mark Waid
Superman: Birthright
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope, Motivational
Life is a mountain, and dreams come true for those who climb it; it's hard, and sometimes you want to turn around because it gets too much, and sometimes you look up at what you have to climb and realise you're not even halfway, but if you keep looking at how much there is to go instead of looking at where you put your feet, you'll never reach the summit. You have to want it, and you have to focus on the now, otherwise you'll live for the future instead of the present, and by then you're not even living.
- Naomi Speakman
Until Now
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope, Success
Impostor Times by Stewart Stafford

When dark forces mask your eyes
Happiness, a distant beacon dream
Hope approaches your warming fire
Enjoy a toast, before flavours teem

Each pillar of truth, now a traitor to you
Motherland cut in mercenary march
Bonfires of blood in purification rage
Cuckoos in the nest, gloat in the larch

Rebel droplets, merge into roaring flood
Abort the tyrant's myriad bastard heirs
Expel the puppets to the unyielding sea
Birthplace restored as the patriot dares

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope, Motivational
Do not be deceived by them. They will tell you that they are good and that they wish you well. They will promise you many things that you know are impossible. Slowly, as you listen to them, you will hope for what cannot be. The Evil One will tell you that you must be something which you cannot be and ridicule you when you fail to become what you cannot become. That is why they are evil.
- Jamake Highwater
Anpao: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – A Timeless Native American Legend About Proving Worthiness for Children
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Hope
How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die
- Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Hope
Love is my inner strength and my power.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Education, Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
Everything will eventually get better,
But first, it will get worse.
- Ritu Negi
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Come with us, we'll take you across the bridge...
- E. K. Mosley
The Last Stardog
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
I look at the bright light of the day outside my window hoping to feel a ray of hope in my life. But unfortunately, I no longer understand what it looks like. Perhaps in the darkness of the casket, I will find the hope to live a peaceful and loving life again. Perhaps I will even find you there with your open arms with a bottle of wine and we would discuss which photographs we would keep for our master bedroom and which ones we would bury like the way we buried our love once. Perhaps.
- Shubham Singhania
Dark little corners
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
What Hope Means (The Sonnet)

What do you think hope means,
To sit and do nothing!
Such is no hope but cowardice,
Real hope gets you walking.

Hope means to take charge,
Hope means unsubmission.
Hope means to not lose sight,
Hope means to cause illumination.

Life is what happens to the human,
Human is what happens to life.
Nature is what happens to the animal,
Human is the animal rising civilized.

I repeat, hope is no excuse for inaction.
Real hope brings emancipation from submission.
- Abhijit Naskar
Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Sunsets are proof that no matter what, every day can end beautifully.
- Emma Lucy
Live, Ranch, Love
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is the light you hold fast to when passing through darkness. With it, you will surely find your way. With it, you will surely find what you’re searching for.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope, Motivational
Whatever gives you hope has given you one of the greatest gifts ever.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
The Musket's Progeny by Stewart Stafford

The musket's progeny, gunpowder's rise,
Heirloom ingot cast in festering dirt,
No scaldy-faced defecator's lies,
Can tarnish gold's immutable worth.

Besmirched, perpetual gleam to my eyes,
Ne'er base, but plundered from thy berth,
Another's private treasure, I cannot despise,
Until thy loan fadeth i' th' afterbirth.

With cloistered secrets to impart,
Our correspondence doth expand,
Let it encompass thy tiny heart,
For when it groweth to understand.

When from distant quays, emotion sails,
My words guide thee in storms and gales.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
For every storm, a rainbow will follow.
- Laura Ellen Anderson
Rainbow Grey
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
THRICE bless'd are they, who feel their loneliness;
To whom nor voice of friends nor pleasant scene
Brings aught on which the sadden'd heart can
lean;
Yea, the rich earth, garb'd in her daintiest dress
Of light and joy, doth but the more oppress,
Claiming responsive smiles and rapture high;
Till, sick at heart, beyond the veil they fly,
Seeking His Presence, who alone can bless.
Such, in strange days, the weapons of Heaven's
grace;
When, passing o'er the high-born Hebrew line,
He moulds the vessel of His vast design;
Fatherless, homeless, reft of age and place,
Sever'd from earth, and careless of its wreck,
Born through long woe His rare Melchizedek.
- John Henry Newman
Verses on Various Occasions
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Over the years, she had time and time again thought that love had a peak and a plateau, but she found that each time she only fell deeper and further in love with her husband. Measurements stopped, time slowed, but the soft fluttering of her heart whenever she thought of him never ceased.
- J. Lam
Snow at Heaven's Edge: A Tale from the Carefree Swordsman Saga
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is a terribly dangerous thing, for what if that which we so passionately hope for never comes to pass? What if the healing never comes, the relationship is never restored, the dream can’t be revived, and the horror of the inevitable remains horribly inevitable? These things I pondered. And yet, standing in a forest forced silent by the bitter hand of winter I was reminded that spring is never deterred despite how bitter winter’s hand might be. For it is not the ‘hope’ of spring. Rather it is the ‘fact’ of spring. And therefore we must remember that hope is fact despite how bitter the hand of life.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
...y aún el antiutopista cree que es bueno luchar, por más que no haya victorias definitivas.
- Luis Gregorich
Literatura y homosexualidad
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
- C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
I wanna be myself (I don’t care)
Yeah, I gotta be myself (Just don’t care)
And now that your weight’s come off my shoulders
I realize that I can fly
I needed to find me (Now I know)
The key was inside of me all along
I’m listening to my heart, let it guide me
I feel the light, I feel the light
- Stray Kids
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
My love for him is what kept me alive. It's the type of love that gave me hope.
- Carmen Rosales
He Loves Me Not
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Let our love be a radiant sun,
casting warmth on all it touches..
Offer compassion like a sheltering canopy,
understand like a soothing balm,
be kind like a gentle breeze
that carries hope.
For we never know who might be weathering a silent storm.
- Monika Ajay Kaul
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
Keep yourself open to unexpected blessings, dear.
- Sarah McCoy
Marilla of Green Gables: A Novel
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
They'll come around. You watch what happens the next time someone co-opt that symbol. People know now, it stands for courage. It stands for Hope. It stands for Superman. and the whole world will remember that.
- Mark Waid
Superman: Birthright
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope, Motivational
Life is a mountain, and dreams come true for those who climb it; it's hard, and sometimes you want to turn around because it gets too much, and sometimes you look up at what you have to climb and realise you're not even halfway, but if you keep looking at how much there is to go instead of looking at where you put your feet, you'll never reach the summit. You have to want it, and you have to focus on the now, otherwise you'll live for the future instead of the present, and by then you're not even living.
- Naomi Speakman
Until Now
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope, Success
Impostor Times by Stewart Stafford

When dark forces mask your eyes
Happiness, a distant beacon dream
Hope approaches your warming fire
Enjoy a toast, before flavours teem

Each pillar of truth, now a traitor to you
Motherland cut in mercenary march
Bonfires of blood in purification rage
Cuckoos in the nest, gloat in the larch

Rebel droplets, merge into roaring flood
Abort the tyrant's myriad bastard heirs
Expel the puppets to the unyielding sea
Birthplace restored as the patriot dares

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope, Motivational
Do not be deceived by them. They will tell you that they are good and that they wish you well. They will promise you many things that you know are impossible. Slowly, as you listen to them, you will hope for what cannot be. The Evil One will tell you that you must be something which you cannot be and ridicule you when you fail to become what you cannot become. That is why they are evil.
- Jamake Highwater
Anpao: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – A Timeless Native American Legend About Proving Worthiness for Children
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die
- Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Death, Hope
Love is my inner strength and my power.
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Education, Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
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